News

Daily Hampshire Gazette1y
The Mill River Flood 150 years later: ‘The whole valley was a wild torrent’ - Daily Hampshire Gazette
On July 16, 1874, the West Briton newspaper, out of Truro in England, carried a “story of the Mill River Flood and the singular conduct of a hen that was out in it,” as told by the Rev. Ward ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette1y
The long shadow of the Mill River flood: Multiple events on tap in May to mark 150th anniversary of the 1874 disaster - Daily Hampshire Gazette
On the morning of May 16, 1874, the dam on the Williamsburg Reservoir, up in the hills along the East Branch of the Mill River, suddenly collapsed, sending 600 million gallons of water roaring ...